Using coconut leaves to weave grasshoppers, you may be clumsy at first to make a somewhat deformed grasshopper, but as practice makes perfect, you will have a great sense of accomplishment! Then let’s start making grasshoppers together!
1. Wipe the front and back of the coconut leaves clean.
2. Fold the leaf in half so that the front side of the leaf is inside and the back side is outside.
3. Measure about the length of two palms from the tail end of the leaf.
4. And make a mark at that point.
5. Use a toothpick at the front end of the leaf to separate the leaf stem from the leaf.
6. Then separate the second half of the stem and leaves.
7. Dial to the mark.
8. Fold the separated leaf stem into an appropriate size and sandwich the remaining part between two palm-length leaves.
9. First, wrap the right half of the leaves around the stem.
10. Form the first half knot on the right.
11. Follow the same steps on the left half to bypass the leaf stem.
12. Form the first half knot on the left.
13. Follow the same steps and tie another half knot on the right side.
14. Tie another half knot on the left side.
15. Do this ten times in order, one right and one left (can be increased or decreased according to the length of the leaves) to complete the body of the grasshopper. 【※Remember to tie ten half knots one on the right and one on the left in sequence. 】And leave a section of leaves.
